Lint package



(No ModeL V J. W. JOHNSON. LINT PACKAGE.

No. 466,892. Patented Jan. l2, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES NV. JOHNSON, OF NEf BRUNSVIOK, NEV JERSEY.

LINT PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,892, dated January12, 1892.

Application filed May 21, 1891. Serial No. 393,592. (No model.) l

To @ZZ whoml t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Brunswick', in the county of Middlesex, Si ate of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LintPackages, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

The obj-ect of my improvement is to provide absorbent lint in compactform and iiexible packages, to adapt it to be conveniently used bydentists as an absorbent or as lint in dressing wounds, and althoughhighly absorbent will leave no fibers adhering` to the parts to which itis applied. I attain these objects with the lint or dressing shown inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a portion of alint package or a sheet thereof obtained in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is across-section of a sheet of compressed absorbent cotton coated withstarch upon one side only.

The package consists of a thin homogeneous bat of well-carded absorbentcotton A, that may be medicated with antiseptics--such as iodoform,carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, ttc. Said bat of cotton has eitherone or both its top and bottom surfaces A2 coated and impregnated with athin solution of starch Or other glutinous or adhesive gums that eX-tend substantially the whole distance within its body by suitable means,the means preferred forming the subject of a companion application forpatent. The thin coating of starch causes a certain thickness of thesuperticial fibers of the bat to remain united together, and said bat ofabsorbent cottonwith its coated and impregnated surfaces is subjected toa moderate pressure between rolls preferably covered with canvas orwire-cloth that causes the solution to sink deeper and gives a pebbledappearance to the starchy surface or surfaces and that reduces thethickness of the bat to that of thick blottingpaper and nearly itsconsistency, although its body within the two surfaces A2, having butlittle starch incorporated within, retains the appearance ofawell-carded but compact bat.

In the drawings the parts are slightly magnified, and in Fig. l thestarched surfaces A2 are shown partly pulled apart from the internalmaterial or body to show the impregnation with gum sizing or starch ofthe top and bottom surfaces that permit them to be pulled apart from thebat Without materially disturbing the central portion.

In Fig. 3 only one surface A2 is `shown impregnated with sizing orstarch.

The lint package above described differs from ordinary cotton-batting,first, in the material used, which is highly absorbent cotton; second,in the thickness given to the bat; third, in the relative proportionsofthe starchimpregnated surface or surfaces to the interior thickness ofthe body of the bat, said proportions being nearly equal; fourth, in thecompacted form of the material that permits a large sheet thereof tostand upon its edge Without having its upper part topple over,V

and, fifth, in the indented or pebbled appearance given to thestarch-impregnated surface. Consequently there is no difficulty indistinguishing the above prepared and described absorbent lint packagefrom the heretofore surface glazed and prepared cotton in common use.

Having now fully described my invention, I claiml. As a new article ofmanufacturean absorbent cotton-lint package consisting Of an homogeneousabsorbent cotton-bat formed in a thin sheet having one of its surfacesimpregnated with a solution of starch pressed therein in proportion tothe thickness of the package, substantially as described.

2. Asa new article of manufacture, an Obsorbent cotton-lint packageconsisting of an homogeneous absorbent cotton-bat formed in a thin sheethaving its top and bottom surfaces impregnated with an adhesive solutionpressed therein and indented or pebbled, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES \V. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

Taos. G. PHINNY, JOHN A. LAW.

